Bill Gates News

Microsoft Corporation , the American software giant founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975, is arguably the most overlooked tech stock in the market due to the perceived maturity of its Windows and Office product lines.

Bill Gates is once again the world's richest person, thanks in large part to a slide over the past few days in the price of Mexican stocks.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates speaks with German Development Minister Dirk Niebel to the media after talks at the Development Ministry on January 29, 2013 in Berlin, Germany.

At Tuesday's PATH breakfast at the Bell Harbor International Conference center in Seattle, Melinda Gates, left, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was introduced by Phyllis Campbell, Pacific Northwest chairman of JPMorgan Chase.

At the Washington Post's Wonkblog, Ezra Klein has put up two posts about healthcare costs that are well worth reading.

In conjunction with the Windows Vista's launch, the British Library launched an online program called "Turning the Pages 2.0" that lets people browse through virtual versions of two Leonardo da Vinci notebooks using some of the underlying graphics technology in the new operating system.

Derek Rodriguez broke into a happy dance last month in a corridor at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport as he and other members of the Arlington High School Band waited to board a flight to New York.

To the casual observer, Tumblr founder David Karp's status as a high school dropout may be the most eye-catching detail of the $1.1 billion Yahoo-Tumblr deal , which is giving the 26-year-old an estimated windfall of $250 million.

For most of your life you've probably heard that you should acquire as much education as you can to succeed.

In 2009, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates started the Giving Pledge for charitable donations.

He calls upon entrepreneurs to work hard, innovate, be bold, and take risks. He is fascinated at the prospect of education meeting neuroscience.

Yahoo announced it bought the blogging site Tumblr for a whopping $1.1 billion on Monday, May 20.

After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.

It's been around on the net for years -- AOL and Intel are merging, and they want to give you lots of money for forwarding their e-mail. Actually, they want Microsoft to give you lots of money.

Bill Gates has regained his title as the richest person in the world. The founder of Microsoft Corp.

Bill Gates, who recently reclaimed the title of the richest man in the world , took to the stage earlier this month for a TED talk on one of his pet causes: improving the quality of education.

Khan Academy founder Sal Khan returns home this weekend as one of the biggest names in U.S. education reform.

The 57-year-old co-founder of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp. recaptured the title from Mexican investor Carlos Slim yesterday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as the software maker hit a five-year high.

"Windows is still the standard, but it doesn't look like Windows 8 is going to have the same penetration as Windows XP and Windows 7 had," said analyst Brad Shimmin.

According to Bloomberg On the surface, the change in fortunes seems perverse; mobile phones are expanding in Mexico whereas Microsoft's biggest weapon Windows 8 is a dud.